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		<title>HCI, Or Look At My New Toy!</title>
		<link>http://refract.me/2010/08/26/hci-or-look-at-my-new-toy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is very US-centric. I get the impression that a lot of HCI professionals never matured past the &#8220;picture on the fridge&#8221; stage. If you read enough SIGCHI papers, it becomes that the &#8220;human&#8221; part is for NSF-funding rather than actually caring about people. And its understandable: we are very self rather than communally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dabbling with Video Game Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 03:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I am on this little tangent after watching Danial Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Video Games and the Female Audience,&#8221; which I followed from &#8220;Considerations on Females as Game Consumers&#8221; at Border House (a feminist video gaming blog). One of the sticking ideas was that the marketing and design of female video game characters are exclusive towards women. Why are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labels and Acts of Geekry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refract.me/?p=405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t call myself a geek, programmer, hobbyist, maker, gamer, or nerd.1 It isn&#8217;t that the definition doesn&#8217;t fit me; I just do not like the connotations of the terms. And I really don&#8217;t feel inclined to redefine the terms to remove the connotations. What&#8217;s wrong with being a…? Nothing. I am simply uncomfortable using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prove you&#8217;re a programmer</title>
		<link>http://refract.me/2010/04/08/prove-youre-a-programmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the major question for an interview I had yesterday. An interview where the only clear direction I had was that I would be doing a 15 minute presentation for. So, I, was expecting an interview focused on my communication skills. And a lot of it was. And then there was the &#8220;prove you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ableism 101</title>
		<link>http://refract.me/2009/11/17/ablism-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, most people are keenly aware that racist and sexist comments are not politically correct or generally acceptable (I will state that these beliefs are still very strong). Sadly, classist, xenophobic, transphobic, heteronormative, and to some extent homophobic prejudices are still pretty much the norm. I&#8217;m not going to be talking about those today. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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